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AS3 Research Library

Years of research on defensive driving, security protocols, and protective driving techniques.

15 articles
A black executive saloon driving away on a wet American motorway at dusk, beside the figure 60%, the share of fatal work injuries for chief executives caused by transportation incidents.
Executive ProtectionDriver Training

The Gap in the Executive Risk-Control System

Transportation incidents caused 60% of fatal work injuries for chief executives in 2022. The road is the part of a controlled day where the organization has the least control.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A deserted asphalt driver training pad at dusk, faded tire marks from old slalom and braking exercises washed pale across the damp surface, orange training cones knocked over and scattered at the edge.
Human Performance & TrainingDriver Training

Is Mastery Truly Achievable?

Soldiers trained to standard lost up to 83% of their hands-on performance after a year away, and rated themselves unchanged. Mastery is not a level you reach. It is an interval you hold.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A black full size executive sedan destroyed against a concrete pillar in a road tunnel at night, debris and tire marks across the wet asphalt, emergency lights washing the tunnel walls.
Human Performance & TrainingDriver Training

Calibration Is the Skill

Two drivers can finish the same course with identical driving skill and still leave dangerously unequal. The difference is the one thing nobody scores.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A car skidding out of control on a wet road at night, a billowing cloud of water spray rising from the tires.
Driver TrainingVehicle Safety

ESC is not the enemy

A trained driver’s instinct is to switch ESC off to feel the machine. The one time that instinct is tested under real stress, it is what could get someone killed.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A security professional sweeping a flashlight beam across one part of a dark parking garage while a hidden human figure waits unseen in the shadows, illustrating 'what you see is all there is'.
Human Performance & TrainingExecutive Protection

What Was Removed

WYSIATI became trust your gut. OODA became act fast. Why the popular versions of situational awareness training dropped the part that mattered most.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A black SUV stopped on a narrow railed highway on-ramp at dusk, a sedan blocking the path ahead with doors open and shadowy figures emerging.
Executive ProtectionVehicle Safety

The Physics of Escape: Why the Viral Ambush Video Is Not Your Training Manual

The viral ambush escape worked on physics most vehicles cannot repeat. Why ramming usually fails, why your car betrays you, and when surrender wins.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A black training sedan mid-skid on a wet skid pad at sunset, tire smoke billowing, traffic cones marking a course, an instructor watching from the edge.
Human Performance & Training

HOW OUR TRAINING WORKS

Most driver training fixes content when the real problem is instinct. Here is how training the amygdala builds judgment that takes over when it counts.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A driving instructor in the passenger seat explaining and gesturing to a trainee at the wheel of a training car at dawn, focused on teaching rather than driving.
Human Performance & Training

What Defines a Good Instructor

The best performer is rarely the best instructor. Why great teaching is its own skill, built on the learning process, myelin, and evidence.

Adrian De Lago
A long-exposure night highway with two parallel streams of light trails, one warm orange and one cool teal, converging toward the horizon.
Human Performance & Training

Skills and Knowledge: The Dual Highway of the Brain

Knowledge sets the paradigm, skill executes it, and the amygdala chooses between them. Why cognitive bias decides how you really drive under pressure.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A security professional drilling between cones on an empty track at dawn, focused and athletic, illustrating deliberate practice.
Human Performance & TrainingExecutive Protection

Mastering the Art of Security: Training for Expertise and Consistent Performance

Expertise is not 10,000 random hours. Here is how deliberate practice, the right skills, and measurement build security training that actually holds up.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A close-protection security driver in a suit crouched beside a black executive SUV in a dim parking structure, inspecting the rear wheel and undercarriage with a flashlight during a pre-departure check.
Vehicle SafetyExecutive Protection

Maintenance, selection, and inspection -How to do them correctly?

Why protection teams skip vehicle inspections, the five sabotage tactics to look for, and the habits that keep a principal safe in and around the car.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A close-protection team running a pre-departure check at dawn beside a black executive SUV, one reviewing a checklist on a tablet while another inspects the vehicle.
Executive ProtectionHuman Performance & Training

The Value of The Checklists in Executive Protection.

From surgery to aviation, checklists cut catastrophic errors. Here is why executive protection teams need them more than experience, and how to use them.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio

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